dear readers...
I know you're out there...

My Site Meter map is showing hits from the Eastern, Central and Pacific time zones... and, if you look real closely, there is a small percentage coming from somewhere way over there... perhaps some lonely soul stuck out on the Kamchatka peninsula, with nothing to do but drink Stoley and surf the net... hmmm, not so very unlike myself.
I'd really like to know who you are and where you're from, so, please, please, please, please, please log onto my Guest Map and stick one of those queer little icons someplace and say hi.

ya know...

You just have to admire the attitude of Western civilization in the face of adversity... here these poor folks had their home destroyed by one of the many tornadoes that plagued the Midwest over the past few days and yet they still have enough of a sense of humor to put up a sign like this... sure beats all the wailing and head holding you see in other parts of the world when something like this happens. Maybe that's why we'll always be around while other societies will eventually fall... we have the ability to laugh at ourselves and with each other once in a while.